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Despite living in the UK for nine years, Iraqi Zana Hassan boasted how much he hated the English before storming into a Methodist church during Sunday service.
After police arrested him he shouted: “I will ******* kill you and kill all the English ********.”
This prompted magistrates this week to ask the Crown Prosecution Service to review the case to decide whether he should face more serious charges.
However, CPS lawyers deemed the offence “low-level disorder” and declined the request.
That enabled Hassan, 29, who sneaked into the UK in 2008, to escape with just a conditional discharge ordering him to stay 100 yards away from the church. He walked free after Home Office officials failed to take the opportunity to seek a deportation order.
Last night Ukip MEP Mike Hookem demanded Hassan, of Bishop Auckland, be deported.
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‘I will kill the English’ Illegal migrant escapes deportation after storming church
A DRUNKEN illegal immigrant has escaped jail even after he threatened to kill churchgoers.
Zana Hassan stormed into a church during Sunday service and threatened churchgoers
Despite living in the UK for nine years, Iraqi Zana Hassan boasted how much he hated the English before storming into a Methodist church during Sunday service.
After police arrested him he shouted: “I will ******* kill you and kill all the English ********.”
This prompted magistrates this week to ask the Crown Prosecution Service to review the case to decide whether he should face more serious charges.
However, CPS lawyers deemed the offence “low-level disorder” and declined the request.
That enabled Hassan, 29, who sneaked into the UK in 2008, to escape with just a conditional discharge ordering him to stay 100 yards away from the church. He walked free after Home Office officials failed to take the opportunity to seek a deportation order.
Last night Ukip MEP Mike Hookem demanded Hassan, of Bishop Auckland, be deported.
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He said: “Do we really need this sort of person in our country? Families will have been attending church and in the current climate would be absolutely terrified by this man rushing in making threats.
“He caused terror and distress so of course there should have been a more serious charge than public order.
“It’s ridiculous. He’s been here all this time and I doubt the authorities know anything about him but hopefully now he will at least be kicked out.”
George Richardson, Conservative county councillor for Barnard Castle East, said: “It seems someone needs to be killed before they get a bigger sentence.
“These days with the amount of terrorist attacks it would be a great concern.”
Hassan admitted the racially aggravated public order offence, which took place in Barnard Castle, County Durham, on Sunday July 9, when he appeared before magistrates in Newton Aycliffe.
Ansab Shan, prosecuting, told the court how a young family outside the church saw the defendant sat on a bench become increasingly aggressive.
Ukip MEP Mike Hookem demanded Hassan be deported
He said: “The witness heard him talking about Iraq and his hatred of the English and he was swearing.
“The defendant then walked into the church and even though the service had started he walked straight to the front and began shouting and swearing. Members of the congregation, which included children, were clearly upset by the defendant’s actions.
“The witness, along with other worshippers, tried to escort him outside the church. After a short while police arrived and arrested the defendant.
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“The defendant then became more aggressive and abusive and began shouting, ‘I will ******* kill you and kill all the English ********. He made references to the war in Iraq.”
Mitigating, Ben Pagman revealed Hassan had been in the UK since 2008 but was “effectively here illegally without permission to remain”.
He said because he had no National Insurance number he could not work or claim benefits and so had got drunk.
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Handing down the conditional discharge, bench chairman Nick Edger said: “With regards to sentence, our hands as a bench are tied.”
Last night a CPS spokesman said: “This case was reviewed by a CPS prosecutor, in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors, prior to a decision being taken in relation to the applicable charges.”
A Home Office spokesman declined to comment on Hassan’s case but said: “Through our Immigration Act 2016, we have made it more difficult for people to remain in the UK illegally by incentivising voluntary returns, introducing tougher penalties for illegal working, and restricting illegal migrants’ access to services.”
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